This edition text in the Clarendon Law Series is completely revised and updated, addressing all recent legislative changes in the law relating to trusts of land, formalities, registration of title and management of trust funds.

It provides an account of the basic principles of the law of property without limiting the discussion to real property or land, but focusing on all the topics taught on UK courses. It sketches out the main patterns of the subject without giving undue prominence to the exceptions and historical inconsistencies.

It cites few statutes and no cases, concentrating on illuminating the underlying themes of the subject.